SAM v. SORREL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS, INC.

No. CA 87 0119.

525 So.2d 244 (1988)

Pinky SAM, Tutrix of Reginald Sam v. SORREL ELECTRICAL CONTRATORS, INCORPORATED, Herman J. Zimmerman and Security Insurance of Hartford.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Porter, Donald R. Fuselier and Curtis Sigur, Porter & Fuselier, New Iberia, for appellant.

Robert M. Mahony, Lafayette, for appellees.

Before LOTTINGER, EDWARDS and ALFORD, JJ.


EDWARDS, Judge.

From a judgment dismissing her action on an exception of prescription, plaintiff appeals. We reverse and remand.

This is a wrongful death and survival action filed on behalf of the minor acknowledged natural child of the decedent. The decedent was killed as a result of an automobile accident on October 20, 1980, and this suit was filed on April 25, 1986, well beyond the one year prescriptive period. Nevertheless plaintiff claims that prescription...

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